English 111.Favorite Genre

It is very true that I love a very large variety of types of movies (and books, too).  I'll watch (and read) just about anything.  That doesn't mean that I like it ALL, but I do at least try.  My least favorite type of movies are horror--true horror where it's essentially a lot of screaming, blood, guts, and gore....with naked people (girls) running into the bathroom.  Those types of movies, to me, are nothing but gratuituous violence.

Anyway, this is supposed to be about my favorite type of movies, not my least favorite.  I guess when I get right down to it, my true favorite movie genre are musicals.  I know that not everyone enjoys musicals, but I, personally, love it when the characters break into song suddenly and without preamble!  Ewan McGregor talks about it in the extras to Moulin Rouge when he says that we hear  the story on a higher emotional level than we do when we just hear the spoken word.  That is so very true for me.  I am deeply moved by music in general.  It can pick me up or match my low mood. 

Musicals are just fun!  Singing is fun!  Have you ever just felt a song ready to burst out of you--and you followed through and let it?!  I don't have a very good voice (my brother, sister, and mom got the voice talents in my family), but I DO love to sing.  When I sing, I feel it not just in my voice; I feel the song from the top of my head all the way down to my toes!  It's just so much for fun going through life with a song in my step than going through life living as if any second is going to be my last.  I've lived like that before; I know what it's like and it's AWFUL.  Singing my way through my life is definitely fun.....!!!

My favorite musical?  That's hard....I LOVE The Phantom of the Opera.  It's especially awesome since my son told me a week or so ago that it's his favorite movie!  He enjoys singing the theme song from it, too!  I love Moulin Rouge.  It's the DVD that's usually playing while I'm grading papers.  I just like having it on in the background when I'm grading.  Yentl is another AMAZING movie!  I love Babs and Mandy Patinkin in that movie!!!!  ''Papa can you hear me?  Papa, watch me fly!"  And who doesn't love the music that's always a part of every [great] Disney movie?!